Re: Change to Attr interface in light of XPath

Jonas Sicking <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.general
Message-ID <CA+c2ei-zxOZi27Vz_pZt3k6V3m--cfsJgcg6-gk6BXeVj61YYQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It returns undefined in all implementations. (I didn't test this and
>> just went by your word initially, reverting that now.)
>
> It does work in Safari, but not Firefox or Chrome:
> http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2892 And
> there is no other member that has such a pointer.

This seems to indicate that both Firefox and Chrome supports
ownerElement in actual released builds.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25086#c8

So do we have any data actually indicating that the web does *not*
depend on this property?

Seems silly to remove this given that it creates a less elegant API,
and that it doesn't really reduce implementation burden (you still
have to have a reference back to the element from the Attr object).

/ Jonas
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